Reason: As of version 5.0,Gitlab will no longer depend on gitolite. Also redis is replaced by sidekiq. A rewrite is scheduled when 5.0 comes out on March 22nd. (Discuss in Talk:Gitlab#)

Gitlab is a free git repository management application based on Ruby on Rails. It is distributed under the MIT License and its source code can be found on Github. It is a very active project with a monthly release cycle and ideal for businesses that want to keep their code private. Consider it as a self hosted Github but open source. You can try a demo here.

Note: In order to receive mail notifications, make sure to install a mail server. By default, Archlinux does not ship with one. The recommended mail server is postfix, but you can use others such as SSMTP, msmtp, sendmail, etc.

PKGBUILDs for Gitlab and Gitlab-shell

There are some (not fully working) PKGBUILDs available to create installable packages:

Ruby

GitLab supports ruby >= 1.9.3 and 2.0.0, but some dependencies gems work better with ruby 1.9.3. Install it from the official repositories and if you bump into any trouble use rvm with ruby 1.9.3-p392.

User accounts

Add git user:

# useradd -dmU /home/git git

Note: git user must have its initial group set to git (not users). If the initial group is not git, then all files created by the git user will be owned by git:users which will prevent GitLab from showing you a newly created repository (it will get stucked at the page where it tells you how to push to the new repository).

gitlab-shell

GitLab Shell is an ssh access and repository management software developed specially for GitLab.

Gitlab

Installation

Note: You can change 5-2-stable to master if you want the bleeding edge version, but do so with caution! Check github to see what is the latest stable version and replace above accordingly.

Basic configuration

First we need to rename the example file.

$ cp config/gitlab.yml.example config/gitlab.yml

The options are pretty straightforward. Open config/gitlab.yml with your favorite editor and edit where needed.
Make sure to change localhost to the fully-qualified domain name of your host serving GitLab where necessary.

Edit /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/gitlab and change YOUR_SERVER_IP and YOUR_SERVER_FQDN to the IP address and fully-qualified domain name of the host serving Gitlab. As you can see nginx needs to access /home/gitlab/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket socket file. You have to be able to run sudo -u http ls /home/gitlab/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket successfully. Otherwise setup access to the directory:

# chgrp http /home/gitlab
# chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= /home/gitlab

Restart gitlab.service, resque.service and nginx.

Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. First we rename the example file and then we start unicorn:

Configure Unicorn

Now edit config/unicorn.rb and add a listening port by uncommenting the following line:

listen "127.0.0.1:8080"

Tip: You can set a custom port if you want. Just remember to also include it in Apache's virtual host. See below.

Create a virtual host for Gitlab

Create a configuration file for Gitlab’s virtual host and insert the lines below adjusted accordingly. For the ssl section see LAMP#SSL. If you do not need it, remove it. Notice that the SSL virtual host needs a specific IP instead of generic. Also if you set a custom port for Unicorn, do not forget to set it at the BalanceMember line.

Running GitLab with rvm

Note: Version 1.9.3 is currently recommended to avoid some compatibility issues.

For the complete installation you will want to be the final user (e.g. git) so make sure to switch to this user and activate your rvm:

su - git
source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

Then continue with the installation instructions from above. However, the systemd scripts will not work this way, because the environment for the rvm is not activated. The recommendation here is to create to separate shell scripts for puma and sidekiq to activate the environment and then start the service: